CALL FOR TUTORIALS 4th Italian Semantic Web Workshop SEMANTIC WEB APPLICATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES (SWAP2007) Bari, Italy, 18-20 December 2007 http://www.swapconf.it/2007 INTRODUCTION ------------ The Semantic Web is currently one of the most interesting and ambitious challenges that the scientific and technological community is facing. While great progresses have been made in terms of consolidation of base philosophy, new issues, technologies and tools are emerging. These issues include creating and managing Semantic Web content, making semantics explicit in order to automatically integrate data from different sources and to search for information based on its meaning rather than its syntactic form. New and advanced methods, models, tools, and technologies for services related to creation, access, retrieval, integration, and filtering of Web content are being developed at the intersection of relevant disciplines that are making the Semantic Web fly, such as Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Distributed Computing, Multimedia Systems, Natural Language Processing, and Human-Computer Interaction. While applications that demonstrate the value of the Semantic Web technologies are critically important, building applications that use Semantic Web technologies is still a relatively new practice for most software developers. This workshop aims at creating the possibility for a meeting and a fruitful debate among Italian and international researchers and developers on Semantic Web, with a special focus on aspects which might enable wide scale use of Semantic Web technologies. TUTORIALS -------- In addition to the regular research and workshop program, SWAP 2007 invites tutorials on relevant topics of interest, either for a half day or 1/4 day duration. A tutorial should present the state of the art of a Semantic Web area enabling attendees to fully appreciate the current issues, main schools of thought and possible application areas. Although tutorials may focus entirely on theoretical aspects, we encourage organisers to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. See below for a list of suggested topics. Tutorial proposals should not exceed 2 pages and should contain the following information: * title and short abstract (to be published on the SWAP2007 website) * tutorial description (aims, content, presentation style, technical requirements) * outline of the tutorial (content and schedule) * information on presenters (name, affiliation, web-address as well as expertise and teaching/presentation experience unless evident from their website) Submitted proposals that follow the above guidelines will be reviewed by the SWAP2007 organizing committee with respect to the relevance of the topic, the content, and the presentation style. AUDIENCE -------- The workshop aims at giving an overview of work performed by the (Italian) Semantic Web community, and aims to attract researchers, developers and interested practitioners alike. Contributions and participants from other countries have been very valuable for the past events, and are invited and very welcome. WORKSHOP LANGUAGE ----------------- Tutorial language is English, for the presentation as well as the used materials. TOPICS ------ The workshop will cover theoretical, practical and implementation issues on Semantic Web. The following is a partial list of topics of interests: * Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and e-learning * Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data * Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web * Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution * Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment * Semantic Web middleware * Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web * Social networks based on Semantic Web technologies * Semantic Web services * Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Agents * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights * Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation * Semantic multimedia * Semantics in P2P systems and grids * Searching, querying, visualizing and interpreting the Semantic Web * Evaluation of semantic Web techniques * Languages, Tools and Methodologies for Semantic Web Data * Large Scale Knowledge Management * Data Semantics * Knowledge Portals * Semantic Brokering * Semantic coordination, integration, matching and interoperability * Semantic Web Mining * Semantic Information Retrieval * Visualization and Modeling * Semantic Web Personalization * Systems of collaborative annotation * Systems of annotation extraction * Applications of Semantic Web technologies * Social aspects of distributed cooperative annotation * Presentation and discussions of application scenarios * Analysis of social online communities * Web 2.0 personalization * Web 2.0 technologies for recommender systems * Web 2.0 based ontology learning * Assistive technologies and the Semantic Web SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS ----------------------- Accepted formats are Postscript and PDF. Proposals should not exceed 2 pages, and should be submitted by email to: swap2007@di.uniba.it IMPORTANT DATES --------------- 16 October 2007 Tutorial submission deadline 12 November 2007 Acceptance/rejection notification 18 December 2007 SWAP2007 Tutorial Day 19-20 December 2007 SWAP2007 Research and Applications LOCATION/REGISTRATION --------------------- The event will take place at: Department of Informatics, University of Bari. One presenter per tutorial will be admitted to SWAP2007 free of charge. Details about registration will be available at the following URL: http://www.swapconf.it/2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- [SWAP series steering committee] Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento Oreste Signore, W3C Office in Italy/CNR Giovanni Tummarello, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway, Ireland [Workshop Chair] Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari [Programme Co-Chair] Eugenio Di Sciascio, Technical University of Bari Christian Morbidoni, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche Heiko Stoermer, University of Trento